Is "AMAZON MARKETPLACE" fraud?

Written by Piper Hall

June 18th, 2024

Medium Risk

What is "AMAZON MARKETPLACE"?

Amazon has been operational since its founding in July 1994. The company's initial focus was on online book sales but has since expanded to a large variety of retail products. Among these are electronics, software, video games, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry. The growth of Amazon has also seen it venture into sectors like cloud computing services (Amazon Web Services), digital streaming (Amazon Prime Video), and artificial intelligence.\n"

AMAZON: The name of the company involved in the transaction.

MARKETPLACE: Indicates that the transaction was made through the online marketplace platform provided by Amazon. Note

Verify if this transaction is fraud in 30 seconds

Verify With Receipt

The best way to tell if this charge is fraudulent is to find the receipt. You may have an electronic copy of the receipt, which you can finding by searching in your email accounts for.

Or, if you want to automatically find and reconcile receipts so you never worry about fraud, you can use SimplyWise to automatically match all bank and credit card transactions to email and paper receipts. The app instantly reconciles your expenses and flags anything that doesn't match.

STEP 1

Connect your Email

Download the SimplyWise app and connect your email account. SimplyWise will search through your emails and find all the receipts in your inbox. This allows you to understand what exactly you are paying for when you see a bank transaction on your statement.

STEP 2

Connect Your Bank

Connect to your bank account/credit card transactions through the secure (256 bit encryption) Reconciliation feature within the app.

STEP 3

Reconcile

Reconcile the charges reported by your financial institution against what you've recorded in your SimplyWise account. Find fraud quickly! SimplyWise will match your transactions to your bank/credit card spending and check those items off.

SimplyWise Community Comments

David Thompson

This fraudulent charge from "AMAZON MARKETPLACE" on 7/15/2023 has me fuming! Did anyone get a refund or resolve this issue? #fraudulentcharge

Ashley Weatherly

Someone bought something on Amazon Marketplace and fraudulently charged it to my debit card. What can I do?

Sarita

Hay un cobro en mi tarjeta q no he autorizado

Lo

Why & How am I charge the same amount through AMAZON MKTPL, when I haven't made any purchases in AMAZOM itself. The have my new credit card before I've changed it in my Amazom account. What's going on???

Dean Olmstead

I was charged like $35.99 for a Amazon charge that I did not authorize. I'll be calling my bank to stop payment tomorrow. Or you can make it easy and just return my money. This makes me so upset whenever I buy through amazon

Margaret Gravely-Cassady

I have been charged to my checking account in the amt. of $44.87 on the date of October 21, 2024.

I was charged two amounts on my credit card that says Amazon Marketplace, which I never Blanchie Kelley

I noticed today two charges on my credit card from Amazon Marketplace that I did not authorize. I will call my bank quickly to stop payment.

Sue Mulkern

I was checking my bank credit card balance and saw that $84.98 was shown as a purchase made thru Amazon Marketplace. I called the credit card company and reported this as fraud.